you remember the jussie smollett hoax -- it was a metaphor for so many things. to the people who were implicated in that hoax, the two men, boxers from chicago that jussie smollett paid to beat him up. great guys, we sat down with them for an episode of tucker carlson today would you definitely have to watch, here's part of it. ♪ ♪ >> we started off by saying that they sent him a hate letter to empire and he wasn't happy with the response the studio was giving him, like they weren't taking it seriously. after saying that, he now told me i want you to attack me. i was confused, i was looking at him in shock like okay, what else? he said i want you to think beat me up. i said okay, cool. said and he asked me do i have somebody else that would do its? he said i think you should use your brother, can we use your brother i said sure, why not? >> he goes and tells me about the hate letter that he got and how they weren't taking it seriously and that he wants us to pretend to beat him up. >> he did not like president trump at the time and he was one of his biggest crit

i'll give you a weird example the case of jussie smollett and his fabricated hate attack from 2019. and this is the actor claimed that he was the victim of a heart attack and turned out that he made the whole thing up. exactly. and so it was very frustrating for me to sort of watch a lot. my leftwing friends say, oh, this is a sign of, you know, where america going. and it's just like, oh, i don't think that really happened the way you think it did. and i would, you know, gotten a several arguments with very close friends of about the veracity of it the way that i knew it wasn't going to happen didn't happen the way it said it was was because i was listening to a bunch of right wing people who are that is that's not us. that was not us. we even know the name of the tv show he's on. we'd never heard of him before. and so as this sort of case came together, the the that knowledge sort of being able to kind of gauge the temperature and see the see the the sort of just identification with that attack from elements of the right it kind of shows how sometimes there are facts that are repo

. >> this guy is basically an academic jussie smollett.ople that he had courtney do with. i think if you entered people about americans about anything, half of the people will disagree . if it's kittens, 50 american 50 percent of americans are going to say kitten suck. but i think you are right about social media p people are arguing anonymously. there is no penalty for saying things and i don't know if the performances on social media or if that is the real people we are in the performances being polite in person. so i don't even give us the path , i think that we've got an argument and we just fake it because nobody wants to save of like that. on social media, they are safe to say a it. that is a terrible thing to say. >> that we are performing in real life? it's unfortunately, but i think that's the truth fred. >> tonight, in our meeting in the field, you are not lighting the cross. i have a projection machine cover, that's all i'm saying. >> that sounds good. >> barbecue. >> up next, it is mart lila: before i was diagnosed, there was n

. >> laura: and the oscar goes to, looks like that workshop with jussie smollett really paid off.course if there were not cameras, there would be no drama and bowman wouldn't be vying for that oscar, which is why i think cameras should only be banned, except in certain places, like the changing rooms at h&m and bill hemmer's bedroom. but this crap happens all the time. remember these performance artists? >> you get out and you create a crowd! and you push back on them. and you tell them they're not welcome. >> that is not right. that is not fair! and that is what we are fighting as well! >> kavanaugh, you have released the whirl wind and you will pay the price! >> don't tell me this is about consistency. don't tell me that this is about an -- a condemnation of anti-semitic remarks. don't tell me because i didn't get a single apology and my life watt lendened, thank you. >> time expired! >> laura: talk about drama. if you happened it up anymore brian stelter might put you in a hoagie. of course you can't forget the patron saint of fake outrage. take it away sis. >> in the backgroun

top prosecutor has endured intense scrutiny criticized heavily for decision not to charge actor jussie smollettan attack by trump supporters. some of the stories outside the beltway from "special report" as you look at chicago. trial of former president trump in a civil lawsuit by a woman who claims he raped her is underway in new york. former elle magazine advice columnist e. jean carroll says the attack happened in department store dressing room in the 190s. the former president vigorously denies that he is not in the courthouse and not required to attend. ♪ ♪ >> lawyers for the suspect in last year's brutal murders at the university of idaho say a woman who lived in the houses who information that could help him. but it's not clear whether the woman will testify in the case of bryan kohberger. correspondent dan springer has the latest tonight. >> two months away from bryan kohberger's preliminary hearing lawyers for the man charged with murdering four university of idaho students last november say a surviving roommate can help his defense. bethany funke told police she was in her basement ro

this is the same person that dropped all charges on the jussie smollett hoax. same person that victims have called out time and time again including those that voted for her. so the fact that he was praising kim foxx tells me there's not much hope to be had. i can pray and wish all that i want. but the facts are simply that. this man ran as a progressive. he was supported by bernie sanders. elizabeth warren. many other individuals. he is a person who will be soft on crime. so neil, this is what we have. the only hope is for other individuals to come up and prevented him from pushing his agenda. that's the city council. >> neil: we'll watch closely. gianno caldwell on those developments. progressives in fact have had a good run of the table right now. not only the chicago mayor's race but what happened in wisconsin for the state supreme court. a vacancy filled by a democrat. progressive one at that. tipping that supreme court in favor of democrats. very howerful supreme court in the state of wisconsin. but it's not a complete run of the table for progressives ri

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. >> jussie smollett and actor who films the hit tv show empire here in chicago, told police he's theictim of a hate crime. i've been truthful and consistent on every single level since day one . let me paint a picture for you. most folks aren't going out at 2:00 in the morning on the cold night of the year. jesse hired them to beat him up . this is where we waited for jesse to come before we attacked. >> we were the ones that did it . >> yeah, it was us with a member of the mob. i have to go down here and talk about a black man who had a noose around his neck and made the whole thing, oh, i would not be my mother's son if i was capable of one drop of water accused of crazy. i've got anything to say to people. chicago. you guys are believable. white supremacists, 100% and bad showing that shabby job in the first to the liberal media is mirroring the parental deghts movement as a threat to democracy. acy and cland claiming that youn don't belong to you. a new op ed is blasting moms and dads as part of a right wing campaign, quote, children aren't private propert"cy, but a public respon

for example the jussie smollett hate crime hoax that was obviously ridiculous, yet a lot of people immediately, uncritically accepted and promoted it, including the current president and vice president. of the united states. this was because it served a bigger narrative about racism, homophobia, block, blah blah. in the case of manson and his supposedly abusive childhood, until you came along, just, pretty much the entire world critically excepted his story that he was a victim of his family and society at large and all that. even john lennon of the beatles bought into it. why do you think that was? what, if any larger narrative fusing was being served by this sort of blind faith and fictionalized narrative of manson? peter: that goes back to where we started our conversation about the mythology of american events. jeff: remember that in 1968 and 1969 in america anything that would have seemed -- anything seems possible that would have seemed impossible years before. young people were radically changing. before in america kids would grow up to be like their parents. suddenly you have young peo

. -- you are no better than jussie smollett you do realize that, don't you?ost: we go to walter in washington dc. you're up. caller: good morning morning how are you? host: i'm fine thank you, go ahead. i will admit with the fault -- the fox settlement they did have false information and some deficits should have been done with debt. but let's not forget c-span on january 6, 2005 when nancy pelosi talked with the democrats and said -- they will change votes for [indiscernible] cheated and took the election from john kerry. so they did not sue anybody for that sense. host: let's stick to the dominion lawsuit. you said that should have been a payoff. what do you think about the figure of the payoff yesterday? caller: what i think is i want fairness on both sides. yes, they reported that, but as i said nancy pelosi did not make the same claims as others did. and the thing is, with the voting machines, they said the same thing. but this is not a big deal really because this is all about because folks questioned the 2020 election. host: are you saying the reportin

. -- you are no better than jussie smollett you do realize that, don't you? host: we go to walter in washington dc. you're up. caller: good morning morning how are you? host: i'm fine thank you, go ahead. i will admit with the fault -- the fox settlement they did have false information and some deficits should have been done with debt. but let's not forget c-span on january 6, 2005 when nancy pelosi talked with the democrats and said -- they will change votes for [indiscernible] cheated and took the election from john kerry. so they did not sue anybody for that sense. host: let's stick to the dominion lawsuit. you said that should have been a payoff. what do you think about the figure of the payoff yesterday? caller: what i think is i want fairness on both sides. yes, they reported that, but as i said nancy pelosi did not make the same claims as others did. and the thing is, with the voting machines, they said the same thing. but this is not